>>>>> - Obama is no better, no more capable, than GWB.
>>>WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!
>>>That verdict is far from in.
>>>Obama has failed to deliver on the big changes he promised, but let's get real here.. no mistake he has made can even approach the disastrous decisions made by Bush (with the assistance of many dems, including Hillary) after 9/11 and while Obama may have his minions, would you rather he had Dick Cheney, Condi "mushroom cloud" Rice or Paul Wolfowitz?
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>>I'm not a fan of Cheney. I do like Condi. Wolfowitz has certainly acknowledged the many mistakes in Iraq. But you've got a growing list of mistakes by Obama regarding Syria and ISIS.
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>>Eric Holder scared me 100 times more. Yes, he's out. But he was so dishonest and so corrupt that I have to use words that are banned by the FCC. He has now admitted that he should not have targeted Fox News reporter James Rosen, that he was wrong. Well, you can add that to the list of times where he openly lied to Congress - he told them in May 2013 that the DOJ would never criminally implicate the press for leaks. He did....and he has admitted it.
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>>It is sad, very sad, that a substantial amount of information has been uncovered regarding the use of Benghazi to funnel weapons into Syria through Turkey, and for the administration to do everything to cover it up. This is Iran-Contra Part 2, and if anything, worse.
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>>It is sad when ATF pushes a large # of untraced guns across the border without alerting the Mexican authorities, leading to over 150 deaths....and for the administration to do everything to cover it up.
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>>It is sad when the DNC and now seven Democratic members of Congress conspire with the IRS Chief Counsel to harass conservative groups , and for the administration to do everything to cover it up.
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>>Keep in mind, Democrats voted for the Iraqi war (as you stated). What has gone on with the current administration is purely partisan. I will say it openly - Barack Obama's administration is much more corrupt than Nixon's.
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>I was responding to your conclusion that Obama's administration was on a level with that of GWB.
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>Most of the above topics are valid subjects of discourse (we'd probably disagree on most) but comparing any or all of them to Bush's affirmatively ordering the senseless, willful slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan citizens and causing the deaths and maiming of thousands of American GI's for no valid reason - with or without support from democrats - is outside my perimeter of reasonable discourse.
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>Incidentally- before we rush to use presidential popularity as a measure of a president's effectiveness, GWB's hit one of its highs when he led the country - with great support from congress, the press and the populace - into the most catastrophic blunder made by a US president since LBJ's Vietnam disaster.

Good post Bill. Unfortunately Tony Blair here gave him a bit of a leg up as well.